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Oct 20, 2021 · Black Neighborhoods Were Decimated. In the first half of the 20th century, Miami’s culturally vibrant Black community of Overtown was widely considered the “Harlem of the South” and ...
- Farrell Evans
Jul 28, 2021 · The West End area of Cincinnati was home to around 25,000 predominantly Black residents who were forced to relocate in the 1950s and ‘60s to make way for I-75. The neighborhood was flattened in ...
Apr 7, 2021 · A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways. Some of the country's highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to ...
- Noel King
May 25, 2021 · *In Montgomery, Alabama, the state highway director, a high-level officer of the Ku Klux Klan, routed Interstate 85 through a neighborhood where many Black civil rights leaders lived, rather than ...
May 29, 2014 · It authorized a 41,000 mi limited-access highway system that would be funded through a Highway Trust Fund, “derived from excise taxes on fuel and tires,” Mohl wrote. “The federal government would provide 90% of the cost, with the states contributing the remaining 10%.”. The BPR would provide oversight but “state highway departments ...
May 1, 2024 · The connection between racial segregation and highways can be attributed to various reasons. A prominent theory stems from historical studies that document the deliberate targeting of predominantly black neighborhoods during the construction of interstate highways in the 1960s, resulting in disruption and destruction of communities residing in those areas (Connerly, 2002, Mohl, 2004, Mohl ...
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Nov 11, 2021 · Nov. 11, 2021 3 AM PT. When President Eisenhower created the U.S. Interstate Highway System in 1956, transportation planners tore through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that, through ...
